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WhiteLight

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Not only does it depend on which part of the planet you shoot from, but also depends on the time of the night.
If you shoot 2 pics of the moon - one at dusk & one towards dawn, they will be upside down relative to each other
 
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WhiteLight said:
Not only does it depend on which part of the planet you shoot from, but also depends on the time of the night.
If you shoot 2 pics of the moon - one at dusk & one towards dawn, they will be upside down relative to each other
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Well, I learned something new today! I had no idea. Thanks for educating me! ;) The only moon shots I've taken were at night so that's all I have to go on. Hopefully I can take something during an early morning. :D
 
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Kevin H

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WhiteLight

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That's super close!
I have a Nexstar Celstron 102SLT, but have never ventured into that aspect of photography yet :(

What mounts have you gotten for the scope & camera?
 
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Jonathan

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That was taken with this mount: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001G4LOFE/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and this lens: Celestron Telescope T Camera Adapter with Barlow Lens: Amazon.co.uk: Camera & Photo. My new purchase is the Nexstar 6SE. Astrophotography is new to me and I'm about a month in (with mainly cloudy skies!). It's really easy to do and I have high hopes. I have added the Celestron AstroMaster kit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004KMC0UC/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and, latterly, the Lilliput 7" monitor: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0050MVDV8/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. Can't wait to string it all together! I love taking macro shots and, now, deep space shots.
 
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wornish

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I have looked all through this thread but cant find a moonshot using the nikon1 V1 with the FT1 adapter and F-Mount lenses ?
​In theory it should give you more magnification.
I had a quick go last night but didnt have the settings right and so no keepers I would post here. Have to wait for another clear night.
 
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Moab Man

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RockyNH said:
George, that Moon picture is excellent... you were able to achieve much more detail than I usually can... Impressed..

Pat in NH
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The biggest problem I see in moon shots (IMO) is that they are overexposed and wash out the fine details of the shadows. We, to include myself for a long time, always want to show the moon very whitish because that's what we see in the sky; which is as we all know the light of the sun and not the moon itself. This was no particularly great moon shot - the basic: tripod, 300mm, crop mode on D7100, mirror up and remote shutter release. What I did was bring down the highlights and brought up the dark areas a little bit to find a more middle ground overall. This allowed the lighter parts of the moon surface to still be brighter, the craters to still have their shadows, and overall it just gave it more detail. Looking through others photos in this thread and I see some great shots (many I like better than mine) I really love, but I also see now where the detail is there but washed out. It was a bit hard mentally to push myself away from the beaten path of a bright white moon, but once I did I was rewarded with details in the moons surface.

That's my two cents and thank you for the compliment Pat. Hopefully others might come to the dark side of the moon and see what I have found :)
 
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I know for a fact I definitely need to try and make my moon shots a bit less on the bright side. Plus I think I should bump up the ISO a bit.

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Moab Man

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I wouldn't bump the iso. My shot is iso 100 , 1/320, f6.3. At my shutter speed there is no movement and more than enough light. Higher iso won't get you anything more.
 
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